Prisma Data incident

Increase in Accelerate cold start time

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

Prisma Data experienced a minor incident on April 1, 2026 affecting Prisma Accelerate and Prisma Postgres, lasting 11h 1m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Apr 01, 2026, 10:15 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 02, 2026, 09:17 AM UTC
Duration
11h 1m
Detected by Pingoru
Apr 01, 2026, 10:15 PM UTC

Affected components

Prisma AcceleratePrisma Postgres

Update timeline

  1. investigating Apr 01, 2026, 10:15 PM UTC

    Description: We are investigating an issue where Accelerate cold starts have increased. Affected users: US East Root cause: Currently unknown Workarounds: For Prisma Postgres users we recommend Direct TCP with connection pooling enabled.

  2. investigating Apr 01, 2026, 11:36 PM UTC

    We are continuing to investigate the issue. Affected users: US East, AP Northeast, AP Southeast, US West, EU Central Root cause: Currently unknown Workarounds: For Prisma Postgres users we recommend Direct TCP with connection pooling enabled.

  3. identified Apr 02, 2026, 12:57 AM UTC

    We've isolated the root cause to an issue within Durable Objects. Cloudflare have an active status page. We're investigating mitigation options.

  4. identified Apr 02, 2026, 02:56 AM UTC

    We are awaiting an update from Cloudflare. As the incident persists, we recommend not deploying new versions of your schema until the incident is resolved to avoid requesting a new Query Engine and encountering a cold start. Workarounds: For Prisma Postgres users we still recommend Direct TCP with connection pooling enabled.

  5. monitoring Apr 02, 2026, 05:43 AM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  6. resolved Apr 02, 2026, 09:17 AM UTC

    The incident has been resolved.